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    "id": 463558,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/463558/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kamau",
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        "legal_name": "Jamleck Irungu Kamau",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, hon. Abdullswamad Sheriff, Member for Mvita Constituency, requested for a Statement from the Committee on Energy, Communications and Information regarding the constant power outages experienced countrywide. The Committee summoned the Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary in charge of Energy and Petroleum accompanied by the Managing Director of Kenya Power and other officers from the Ministry on 9th October, 2013, to deliberate on the Statement by the Member. I wish, therefore, to state as follows:- The Statement requested from the Committee had two issues. One of the issues is what effective measures the Kenya Power has put in place to handle emergency power blackouts in the country to avoid recurrence of these power outages. In relation to this particular inquiry by the Member, the Committee established the following:- That the Kenya Power is currently implementing a programme on investment that targets at having alternative supply lines in various installations in order to maintain supplies in the event of unforeseen breakdowns on the preferred sources. Two, towards achieving this goal, the company invested about US$160 million, about Kshs13.5 billion, in constructing sub-stations and lines in the last eight years under the Energy Sector Recovery Programme Project (ESRP) and other programmes. 3. Currently, the company is constructing an additional 38 new substations across the country at a cost of Kshs10.6 billion under the Kenya Electricity Expansion Programme."
}